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Back Issues of Shelterforce

Nos. 35-73 are $3 each, 74-144 are $5 each, 145-current are $7.50 each.

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#152 - Winter 2007 Community Development at 40: Leadership in the 21st Century, New Definitions of Community Development, Uniting Fair Housing and Community Development, New Leaders on the Gulf Coast, Trends in Rural CDCs, Ethnic CDCs, When Supportive Housing Isn't...
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#151 - Fall 2007 Housing and Presidential Politics: Housing the Working Poor, Credit Where Credit is Due, The Supreme Denial of Integration. Plus: Struggling in the Crescent City, Charting a New Course in Portland, Keeping Kukui Gardens, The Case for Plan B, Getting it Done...
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#150 - Summer 2007 Subprime Slide: Losing Ground to Abusive Lenders, The Trauma of Foreclosure, A Strategy for Responding to the Crisis, Legal Strategies in Ohio to Fight Abusive Lending. Also: D.C. Community Benefits Agreement, ACORN and Attorneygate, Shrinking Cities, Building a Better Housing Policy...
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#149 - Spring 2007 Bringing Shared-Equity Homeownership to Scale: Manufactured-Housing Cooperatives, Municipally Supported Community Land Trusts, Low-Income Tenants Buy Their Homes in D.C., A Winning Campaign for Inclusionary Zoning, Asset-Building Comes of Age, Toward a Common Agenda. Also: Barack Obama's Third Way, Is Housing First Too Much of a Good Thing? ...
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#148 - Winter 2006 NYC Tenants Face Loss of Middle-Income Units, The Case for a Right to Housing, Why CDCs Should Advocate for a Right to Hosuing, A Merger of Two Cincinnati CDCs, Gentrifiers Move Onto Social Services' Turf, Universal Design and Visitability in Affordable Housing, Making Tax Credits Work for the Disabled, Midterm Election Analysis, 2006 Housing and Community Development Victories...
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#147 - Fall 2006 Katrina Evacuees in Limbo in Texas, Privileged Places, Nonprofits Prevent Foreclosure, Can Progressives Deliver in '06, Labor and Community Think Collectively, the Prevailing Wage Debate, Rx for Tenants, Healthy Foods and Strong Communities, Concentrated Poverty Moves Around
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#146 - Summer 2006 Budgeting for Democracy in Lawrence, Mass., Canada and Chicago, Planning Beyond the Project, Building Trust Through Planning in New York's Chinatown, Managing the Affordable Housing Message, The Politics of Poverty, Say NO to Wal-Bank, Evictions After Katrina, Jane Jacobs' Radical Legacy
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#145 - Spring 2006 After Katrina: A Political Disaster, Organizing Networks Step Up, Intermediaries Head for the Gulf Coast, Planning New Orleans, the Media on Poverty. Also: Grassroots Organizing and Design in Oakland, Frank Wilkinson's Legacy
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#144 - Nov/Dec 2005 Community Benefits Agreements, ACORN Partners With a Private Developer, CDC Networks, President Bush and the Mansion Subsidy, the 30th Anniversary of Shelterforce: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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#143 - Sept/Oct 2005 Community Entrepreneurship for CDCs, A Nonprofit Takes a Business Approach, Brokerages for the Rest of Us, Collective vs. Market Housing, After Katrina, the Legacy of Racism and Poverty in New Orleans
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#142 - July/Aug 2005 Land Trust in Mississippi, Gentrification in New York, Limited-Equity Co-ops, Reality Check for Housing Advocates
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#141 - May/Jun 2005 CANDO's Rise and Fall, Cleveland's Housing Court, Hope Community's Listening Project, Employer-Assisted Housing
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#140 - Mar/Apr 2005 Rebuilding Cities: Network Organizing in Lawrence, Mass., Housiing Strategies for Market Revival, Thompson v. HUD, Healthy Housing Advocacy
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#139 - Jan/Feb 2005 Housing and Service Providers for Ex-offenders * Predatory Lending * Community-University Partnerships
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#138 - Nov/Dec 2004 PUBLIC HOUSING: The "Community" in Chicago's Public Housing * Resident-led Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District * The Social Loss of Urban Renewal * The Reality of Deconcentration * Post-Election Commentary
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#137 - Sep/Oct 2004 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Dilemma * Developing A Workforce * Urban Neglect: George W. Bush and the Cities * CDC's Build Power * Hip-Hop Politics
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#136 - Jul/Aug 2004 McKinney-Vento Homeless Act * Jobs-Housing Mismatch * Section 8 Homeownership Program * CDC's and Community Mediation
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#135 - May/Jun 2004 Arena Politics in Newark, NJ * HUD's House of Cards: Will Martinez's accomplishments help him win in the Florida Senate? * KWRU's Fight for Economic Rights * The Housing Bubble: Time Bomb in Low-Income Communities? * Reagan's Legacy: Homelessness in America
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#134 - Mar/Apr 2004 Designing Beauty in Affordable Housing * New Jersey's Mount Laurel Decision Under Attack * CDCs Having Their Say in the Planning of Newark, NJ * Social Injustice in Chicago: The Battle Over the Heavily Subsidized Luxury Development -- Presidential Towers
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#133 - Jan/Feb 2004 Community Development Through the Prism of Newark, NJs CDCs * New Role of CDCs in Gentrifying Neighborhoods * How SEA Corp Crafted a Community of Practice * Affordability Name Game
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#132 - Nov/Dec 2003 Women at Work: An Economic Justice Story * Strategic Restructuring as a Safety Net for CDCs * Building Assets To Make Homeownership a Reality for the Disabled * How Chicago Block Clubs Are Fighting Crime
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#131 - Sep/Oct 2003 Zoning for Housing Justice: Inclusionary Zoning At Work * Freddie and Fannie Under Fire * What CDCs Can Do In Weak Market Communities * Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye: The Fight for Low-Income Housing * Essay on Progressive Politics and Organizing
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#130 - Jul/Aug 2003 Enterprising Nonprofits: Profile of Housing Works, Inc. * City Soil: Reusing Urban Brownfields as Affordable Housing Sites * Beyond the Housing Headlines: State of the Nation's Housing 2003 * Black Organizer Blues
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#129 - May/Jun 2003 The CDC School of Hard Knocks * CDC Mergers * Can this Collaboration Be Saved? * Gentrification Roundtable * Enraging the Right
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#128 - Mar/Apr 2003 Riding the Rails for Social Justice * No Progess Without Protest * Left Behind: Housing Instability and School Performance * From the Social Welfare State to the Social Investment State * Work, Wages, and Income Still Matter * A City Seen: Cleveland Community Development in Photos * Putting Idle Capital to Work * Helping the Mayor Get Your Way
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#127 - Jan/Feb 2003 Has Homeownership Been Oversold? * Section 8 Is Broken * Building Wealth * Tenants Win a War, But Lose a Battle
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#126 - Nov/Dec 2002 Fighting for Air in Camden * When Your Bank Leaves Town * Interview with Boston Mayor Menino * Planning with GIS * Artist Profile: Ricardo Cartagena
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#125 - Sep/Oct 2002 Almost Home: Foster care youth learn to live independently * The Conundrum of Community Development * Going Subprime: Fannie and Freddie enter the subprime market
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#124 - Jul/Aug 2002 Direct Action for Housing * The Power of the Community Press * Millennial Housing Commission Report * Tenant Blacklisting * Livable and Affordable * Fighting Predatory Financial Services
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#123 - May/Jun 2002 Cincinnati: A Year Later No Wiser * Cincinnati commentary * Built to Last: Better-Managed CDCs * It Takes a CDC * How the Living Wage Movement Prevailed
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#122 - Mar/Apr 2002 Cushing Dolbeare: A Life in Housing * Block Group Organizing * Winning a Housing Trust Fund in LA
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#121 - Jan/Feb 2002 Target: Problem Properties * Affordable Forever: Community Land Trusts * So You Want to Be a Developer... * Relying on Ourselves: Rural Community Development
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#120 - Nov/Dec 2001 The Future of Affordability * Smart Growth * Insuring Reinvestment * Labor Goes to Bat for Housing in San Jose
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#119 - Sep/Oct 2001 Special Issue: Evaluating Community Organizations * A Note From The Guest Editors * A Look In The Mirror * Getting At Impact * Evaluation From All Sides: A Roundtable * Evaluation Resources * Shifting The Balance of Power: Participatory Evaluation
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#118 - Jul/Aug 2001 Special Issue: Back To School * Community and Schools * Learning to Work Together * District-Wide Reform * Improving Facilities
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#117 - May/Jun 2001 Managing Gentrification: Tools and Timing * Our Housing Markets Don't Work * Rent Control: Where Is It Now?
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#116 - Mar/Apr 2001 Steering and Segregation * New Urbanism * The Bush Administration * Low Income Housing Institute * Fenway CDC
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#115 - Jan/Feb 2001 Special Issue: Faith-Based Initiatives: From The Pulpit To The Pavement * Faith and Justice * Black Churches, Community, and Development * Not By Faith Alone: How and When to Start a Faith-Based CDC * Building Democracy * Catholic Campaign for Human Development * (UN)Charitable Choice
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#114 - Nov/Dec 2000 Special Issue: Leadership * Stakeholder Community Development * DSNI's Homegrown Leader * Creating Enduring Organizations * Parents As Leaders * Holding Leaders Accountable
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#113 - Sep/Oct 2000 "Flipping" Scams Bring Down Neighborhoods * Devolution Hits Canadian Housing * Hearts On Fire: How To Avoid Burnout * Using GIS For Community Empowerment
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#112 - Jul/Aug 2000 EZ'er Said Than Done * Financial Literacy * Housing Counseling * George Knight Interview * Mobile Homes
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#111 - May/Jun 2000 Renewing Bonds: Labor and the Housing Movement * Stamford Organizing Project * Globalization and Neighborhood Development * Congressional Report Card
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#110 - Mar/Apr 2000 25th Anniversary Essays * And the World Keeps Changing * Shifting Fortunes * Twin Pursuits * We Build the Road * Time to Remove The Rose-Colored Glasses * Building Assets to Fight Poverty * Building Power
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#109 - Jan/Feb 2000 Arts Build Community * Predatory Lending * Housing the Elderly * New Codes for Old Buildings
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#108 - Nov/Dec 1999 CRA: Responses to Financial Modernization * Resident Planning * Town & Gown: Community Research
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#107 - Sep/Oct 1999 Teaching Community Entrepreneurship * Cardell Cooper * Community Groups and Energy Deregulation * Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation
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#106 - Jul/Aug 1999 Outlawing Homelessness * IDA's * Funding Organizing
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#105 - May/Jun 1999 Whatever Happened to the Tenants Movement? * Housing Justice Roundtable * Building Effective Partnerships with formal structure * CDCs in Southern California collaborate
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#104 - Mar/Apr 1999 The Rise and Fall of Eastside Community Investments * New Hope for Public Housing? * CDCs, Social Capital, and Housing Quality * Boosting the Capacity of CDCs
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#103 - Jan/Feb 1999 Special Issue: Sustainability * Meeting of Movements * Affordable Green Design * Interview: Greg Watson * Ecological Job Creation
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#102 - Nov/Dec 1998
Developing Workers * Youthbuild * The Last Stop Sign * Some Good News for Organizers * Section 3 Jobs Program
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#101 - Sep/Oct 1998 Special Issue: Organizing Today * United Power for Action and Justice * Twin Cities CDC * Community-Labor Coalitions * Fair Housing Drives New Party Growth in Little Rock * Organizing's Past, Present and Future * Pablo Eisenberg Interview * Organizing, Power & Public Policy & Training Directory
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#100 - Jul/Aug 1998 HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo Interview * Community Action Agencies * National Congress for Community Economic Development * Cities Back from the Edge
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#99 - May/Jun 1998 Transforming Public Schools * Bringing School Home * Making Work Pay * Closing the Wage Gap * Nearly Homeowners
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#98 - Mar/Apr 1998 Pulling Together to Fight for Jobs * Congressman Henry Gonzales * Pursing the Dream Photo Essay * Housing and Welfare Reform
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#97 - Jan/Feb 1998 Special Issue: Community Building and Metropolitan Communities * Expanding Community Development * Connecting People fo Jobs * Growing Together * Coalition Building * Fighting Urban Sprawl * Comprehensive Community Initiatives, Pt. II (Full report available separately)
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#96 - Nov/Dec 1997 Electronic Funds Transfer and the "Unbanked" * Strategies for Welfare Reform * Karen Clark Profile * Comprehensive Community Initiatives, Pt. 1 (Full report available separately)
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#95 - Sep/Oct 1997 Public Housing Legislation * Rep. Rick Lazio Interview * Organizing in Public Housing * Melvin Oliver Interview * Lead Abatement
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#94 - Jul/Aug 1997 Section 8 series: Housing Policy in America; Section 8 in Congress, Commentaries * I'm a Tenant, and I Vote! * Winning the Rent Control Battle
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#93 - May/Jun 1997 Defensible Space * Gated Communities * Appraisal Redlining * Mt. Laurel Reviews * Amazing Grace: Allen Ginsberg
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#92 - Mar/Apr 1997 Watchful Stewards: MHAs and CLTs * Safe Communities Focus: * CBOs Restore Order * Community Policing * Working With Police * Drug War in St. Paul
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#91 - Jan/Feb 1997 Helen Dunlap Interview * Caveat Emptor: The Dangers of Partnering with For-Profits * Federal Housing Policy in '97 * Neighborhood Assistance Programs
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#90 - Nov/Dec 1996 Special Issue: Saving Affordable Housing Study (Full description)
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#89 - Sep/Oct 1996 Special Issue: Jobs Creation * Housing and Jobs * Individual Development Accounts * Program-Related Investments * For-Profit Subsidiaries * What if Everyone Had a Job? * One Paycheck Away from Homelessness
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#88 - Jul/Aug 1996 Wendy Sherman Interview * Supportive Housing Article Series
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#87 - May/Jun 1996 Toward a Different CDC * CBOs: The Soul of the Neighborhood * There Goes the Neighborhood? * National People's Action
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#86 - Mar/Apr 1996 Mayor Tom Murphy Interview * Progressive Victory for Affordable Housing in Santa Fe * Campaign '96; Housing Groups Make a Difference
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#85 - Jan/Feb 1996 Comprehensive Community Initiatives * New Models of Community Organizing * Asian Americans for Equality Profile
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#84 - Nov/Dec 1995 20th Anniversary Issue Essays * Bleak House; Public Housing in Chicago * Where the Quiet Holds No Terror; NY Public Housing * Using Housing Studies to Win Media Attention * CRA: Interviews with Citizen Action and First Union Bank
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#83 - Sep/Oct 1995 Building Communities From the Inside Out * CDCs and American Communities * Profile of Greyston Foundation * Transforming Communities: essays by Martin Johnson, JoAnn Kane, Ed Schwartz, Phil Tom, and Robert O. Zdenek
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#82 - Jul/Aug 1995 The House That Greed Built: Texas Colonias * Colonias Organize * Mark-to Market Debate, HUD vs. National Housing Trust * Affordable Housing Production Debate II * Interview with Bill Apgar, Joint Center for Housing Studies
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#81 - May/Jun 1995 HUD: Who Needs It? Essays on HUD's Future * Affordable Housing Production Debate, Pt. I * CRA Tools * Bruce Marks Profile * 13th Street Squatters
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#80 - Mar/Apr 1995 Mass. Defeats Rent Control * New Rules for Fannie and Freddie * HUD's Balancing Act * Mixed-Income Housing * Neighbors Organize Against Drug House * Ann Arbor Tenants Union
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#79 - Jan/Feb 1995 Roberta Achtenberg Interview * Neighborhood Choice * Suburbs Fight Gautreaux * Redlining * Coalition Shapes CDFI Act
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#78 - Nov/Dec 1994 Mayor Jerry Abramson Interview * Election Analysis * Holding Politicians Accountable * NLIHC Housing Justice Supplement
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#77 - Sep/Oct 1994 Joseph Shuldiner Interview * Public Housing: What Went Wrong? * ACORN Organizes Public Housing * No Easy Walk Photo Review
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#76 - Jul/Aug 1994 Andrew Cuomo Interview * Energy Efficiency and Low-Income Housing * Effective Community Development * Getting the Most from Technical Assistance
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#75 - May/Jun 1994 Turf Wars: Urban Squatters vs. City Hall * The Housing Movement and the Motor Voter Law * Holding Landlords in Bankruptcy Accountable to Tenants * Pro-Integrative Housing
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#74 - Mar/Apr 1994 Revitalizing Inner-Cities is Not Impossible * Building a Populist Coalition for Affordable Housing: Are We Dreaming? * $2 Billion Up In Smoke
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#73 - Jan/Feb 1994 Rebuilding the Ghetto * Community Based Economic Development * Family of Nonprofits Assists Troubled Community * San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations * Interview with Nicolas Retsinas
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#72 - Nov/Dec 1993 Coalition Saves LA Housing Funds * Public Housing Resident Management * Habitat for Humanity * Michael Stegman Interview
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#71 - Sep/Oct 1993 Memo to the Media: * Housing Checklist for the Media * Illinois Tenants Union * Repairing Hope and Homes for the Invisible Poor
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#70 - Jul/Aug 1993 The New York Times Attacks Community-Based Solutions * From Foreclosure to Neighborhood Stability * Neighborhood Design for Public Housing * Interview with Barry Zigas
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#69 - May/Jun 1993 Mutual Housing Associations * Home Buyers Union * Japanese Housing Design * Santa Monica vs. Houston Development * Chicago Housing & Jobs Campaign
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#68 - Mar/Apr 1993 Union Wage Requirements for Subsidized Housing: A Debate * ACORN's Agenda * Who's Running HUD?
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#67 - Jan/Feb 1993 Making HUD Work * Religious Congregations Develop Housing * Clinton's Economic Plan – What it Means for Housing
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#66 - Nov/Dec 1992 Special Issue – Memo to Clinton: A National Housing Policy for the 90s
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#65 - Sep/Oct 1992 Housing Receivership: Chicago's Successful Program * Expanding Homeownership by Reforming the Tax Deduction * Housing Trust Funds III
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#64 - Jul/Aug 1992 Nonprofit Landlord Requires Tenants to Improve Their Lives * Housing Trust Funds II: The Winning Campaign
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#63 - May/Jun 1992 Housing Trust Funds: How They Work * HOME Program Pitfalls
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#62 - Mar/Apr 1992 The HOME Program and CDCs * Burlington, VT, Housing Policies – Ballot Box Victories
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#61 - Jan/Feb 1992 Low Income Housing Tax Credits: A Debate * Community Reinvestment Act Empowers Communities
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#60 - Nov/Dec 1991 How Non-Profits Can Utilize Housing Tax Credits * Study of Homelessness Prevention Programs
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#59 - Sep/Oct 1991 How RTC Properties Became Affordable Housing * Organizing Johannesburg's Tenants * The Other Public Housing Program
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#57 - May/Jun 1991 Pension Financed Housing * Housing Trust Fund Campaign * Action Guide to CHAS * Saving Mobile Homes
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#56 - Mar/Apr 1991 The National Affordable Housing Act – Making It Work * Progressive Housing Policies – From the Universities to City Hall * Affordable In-Fill Housing
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#55 - Jan/Feb 1991 Rx for the Savings and Loan Bailout * Factory Built Housing * Rent Control and Property Taxes
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#54 - Sep/Oct 1990 Housing and Workplace Fundraising * Can Los Angeles Save Its At-risk Housing? * Reshaping Housing Policy * Congressional Report Card on Housing
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#52 - Mar/Apr 1990 Housing Advocates View the Future of Housing Policy * Kemp and Rent Control * Saving Public Housing and Subsidized Housing
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#51 - Jan/Feb 1990 Special Issue: Employer-Assisted Housing
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#49 - Jul/Aug/Sep 1989 The Single-Family House: Does it Belong in a Woman's Housing Agenda? * Shared Housing: An Innovative Approach * 1990s Alternative Architecture
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#48 - May/Jun 1989 Affordable Housing Without Profit or Scandal – A Solution to the HUD Scandal * Mutual Housing * Expanding Homeownership Through Limited Equity
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#47 - Feb/Mar/Apr 1989 The Emergence of Community Development Corporations * Community Land Trusts: Preserving Affordability
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#46 - Dec/Jan 1988-9 Assembling The Affordable Housing Puzzle – Prescription for a New Federal Housing Policy * A Low-Cost Federal Housing Policy for First-Time Homebuyers
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#45 - Oct/Nov 1988 Rescuing At-Risk Housing * Tenant Action Group: A Model for Organizing * Saving Northgate
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#44 - Aug/Sep 1988 Opening the Suburbs: New Jersey's Mt. Laurel Experience * Building the American Dream – Forging a New Coalition
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#43 - Jun/Jul 1988 A Status Report on the American Dream * Housing Partnerships in Four Cities * Isolating the Homeless * Stabilizing Neighborhoods with Preservation Laws
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#41 - Nov/Dec 1987 Interview with Chicago's "tenant's Alderman" David Orr * Arson-for-Profit: A Major Cause of Homelessness * Making Homelessness a Presidential Issue
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#40 - Sep/Oct 1987 Social Investing – Financing Community-Based Development * Community-Based Housing in Federal Policy * Dispelling Myths of Housing Vouchers
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#39 - Jul/Aug 1987 Wearing Two Hats: Moving from Organizing to Housing Development * Camden's Struggle for Survival * Interview with tenant organizer Belinda Mayo * Public Housing Up in Smoke
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#38 - May/Jun 1987 GM vs. Community Control * For-profit Ventures in Energy Conservation * IRS Gag Orders * Cashing in on Government Housing (Section 8 opt-outs)
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#37 - Jan/Feb 1987 The Pros and Cons of Selling Public Housing * Housing Receivership – A New Tool for Code Enforcement
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#36 - Nov/Dec 1986 Homeownership without Speculation * Winners and Losers in Government Housing * Resistance to Zong Plan in NYC's Chinatown * I-Hotel Revisited
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#35 - Sep/Oct 1986 Disinvestment to Displacement in Roxbury * Short Circuiting Rent Control * Tenant Organizing in Post–World War I New York
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Nos. 35-73 are $3 each, 74-current are $5 each.

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Research Reports

Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing
By John Emmeus Davis
As the housing crisis worsens, putting the American Dream out of reach for millions, communities around the country are turning to shared equity homeownership – limited equity coops, community land trusts and inclusionary units – to redefine the housing ladder. This breakthrough study examines the benefits of these models within a sectoral framework; a third sector housing strategy. Support for this study was provided by the Ford and Surdna foundations.
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Building A Better Urban Future: New Directions for Housing Policies in Weak Market Cities
By Alan Mallach
A policy paper for practitioners and policymakers investing housing resources in weak market cities. The project focuses on market-driven approaches, the integration of affordable and market-rate housing and the use of housing as a core element in both economic development and neighborhood revitalization strategies. The project is in collaboration with the Community Development Partnerships’ Network, LISC and the Enterprise Foundation.
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Redefining Community Development
By Winton Pitcoff
This Shelterforce special report takes a close look at comprehensive community initiatives, including those supported by the Annie E. Casey, Clark, Ford, and Surdna Foundations, and their role in empowering poor communities. The report examines how community groups work together toward the common purpose of changing the way their local systems (housing, schools, welfare) work and the way community groups work within those systems.
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Saving Affordable Housing, What Community Groups Can Do and What Government Should Do
By John Atlas and Ellen Shoskes
"A practical review of selected examples of community-based groups that have preserved and revitalized affordable housing. After a quick introduction and context, the report delves into the meat of six project case studies. These case studies illuminate and contrast what works for each group, along with the challenges they face. Each study explores what these groups have done to preserve and enhance not just housing stock, but also entire neighborhoods. The final chapters are the most useful, identifying the elements of success and the lessons learned by each provider. Saving Affordable Housing is a good tool for housing practitioners, students of housing and community development, policymakers and planners, CDC boards, and resident groups. The report is full of great illustrations and practical experience. It is more useful than most case studies because it moves past the rhetoric of government programs and even the process of deal making and focuses on elements of success and the lessons learned." From the foreword by Helen Dunlap, President, National Low Income Housing Coalition. 90 pages.
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Community Empowerment Strategies: Community-Based Problem-Solving in Urban Neighborhoods
By Peter Dreier
This paper, delivered at the Roundtable on Urban Policy of HUD's Social Science Research Center in December 1993, focuses on the factors that lead to successful community organizing around issues affecting distressed neighborhoods. The paper examines the extent to which groups accomplish community organizing and what the Federal role should be in strengthening those activities, building organizational capacity to expand community organizing, and developing community leaders. 40 pages.
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Inside Clinton's HUD
Interviews by Chester Hartman
This special collection brings together five Shelterforce interviews by Chester Hartman, Shelterforce contributing editor and executive director of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. Conducted in 1993 and 1994, the interviews are with: Michael Stegman, Assistant Secretary for Policy Research and Development; Nicolas Retsinas, Assistant Secretary for Housing and Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration; Andrew Cuomo, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development; Joseph Shuldiner, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing; and Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing. 35 pages.
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Books

Streets of Hope
By Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar
The Dudley Street neighborhood, in one of Boston's most impoverished areas, successfully tackled key community development policy and organizing issues through the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI). Residents organized and created their own comprehensive development plan and forged partnerships with city government, foundations and agencies. DSNI became the first neighborhood group in the nation to win the right of eminent domain, with which they began to transform burnt-out lots from wasteland to wealth controlled by the community. South End Press, 1994. 337 pages (paperback).
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The Long Stair: An Albany Mystery
By Kirby White
A murder occurs in the office of the Neighborhood Housing Association on the north side of Albany, NY. When a neighborhood resident and affordable housing consultant volunteers to help the organization recover, he begins to uncover a puzzling mystery. “…The Long Stair is, first and last a murder mystery, not a white paper. And as such, it’s a gripping read.” Fox Creek Press, 2005. 220 pages (paperback).
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Raise The Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All Of Us
By Holly Sklar, Laryssa Mykyta and Susan Wefald
"They work full time in the richest nation on Earth, yet they can't make ends meet ..." This book tells the story of the working poor, as well as providing numbers and policy solutions "with passion and precision."
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Chaos or Community? Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats For Bad Economics
By Holly Sklar
"This superb book examines today's major socio-economic issues with clarity and intelligence – from income distribution ... to expanding prisons. A tour-de-force of accessible economics and social analysis."
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Reprints

#22 Housing Receivership. Two articles. The first details Chicago's aggressive program that goes beyond code enforcement and gets results with troubled apartment buildings; how public funds are invested and recouped. Also, Housing Receivership – A New Tool for Code Enforcement, about a successful receivership program in Essex County, NJ.
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#21 Housing Trust Funds. This guide for winning, setting up and administering a successful, local housing trust fund was written by the director of The Housing Trust Fund Project, Mary E. Brooks. It is a reprint of a 3-part Shelterforce series. Includes profiles of six trust funds.
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#19 Hands-on Housing, reprints of two Shelterforce articles about the construction of affordable housing – for anyone building it or considering it. Factory-Built Housing Today looks at the factory-built industry and provides tips for community developers. The Affordable In-Fill House analyzes a project designed by NHI and built by HANDS, Inc., a community development corporation.
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#15 Special Issue: Employer-Assisted Housing, #51 - Jan/Feb 1990
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#13 The Affordability Gap: Employers Must Face Housing Squeeze, reprinted from Shelterforce, Peter Dreier and Rebecca Stevens document the gap between median home prices and median incomes in 56 American cities. Housing Affordability Ratios are established for each city.
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#11 The Mess at HUD – Affordable Housing Without Profit or Scandal, Shelterforce reprint. Peter Dreier lays the blame for the HUD scandal at the feet of a U.S. housing policy that offered private developers huge subsidized profits to encourage them to build housing. Dreier contrasts the HUD "swamp" with the Canadian policy that produced many units, a strong nonprofit sector, and no scandal.
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